ArticleAnimal welfare (South Mimms, England)2023
Challenges in farmed insect welfare: Beyond the question of sentience.
Article in Animal welfare (South Mimms, England), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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- Identification of Legal Barriers to the Rearing and Processing of Insects in the EU-Implications Based on a Case Study.Insects · 2026Article
- A review of existing scientific literature on welfare assessment of farmed species applied in commercial practice: identification of strengths, weaknesses, and areas for further development.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2025Review
- A First Step Towards Black Soldier Fly Larvae (Diptera: Stratiomyidae) Welfare by Considering Dietary Regimes (Part I).Insects · 2024Article
- A Model for Consumer Acceptance of Insect-Based Dog Foods among Adult UK Dog Owners.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Article
- Grinding as a slaughter method for farmed black soldier fly (Animal welfare (South Mimms, England) · 2024Article
- Near and Dear? If animal welfare concepts do not apply to species at a great phylogenetic distance from humans, what concepts might serve as alternatives?Animal welfare (South Mimms, England) · 2024Review
- Aquatic and Terrestrial Invertebrate Welfare.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Review
- Early-life interventions to prevent feather pecking and reduce fearfulness in laying hens.Poultry science · 2023Article
- A new era forAnimal welfare (South Mimms, England) · 2023Article
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Abstract
The global Insects as Food and Feed (IAFF) industry currently farms over a trillion individual insects a year and is growing rapidly. Intensive animal production systems are known to cause a range of negative affective states in livestock; given the potential scale of the IAFF industry, it is urgent to consider the welfare of the industry's insect livestock. The majority of the literature on farmed insect welfare has focused on: (i) establishing that insect welfare ought to be of concern; or (ii) extending vertebrate welfare frameworks to insects. However, there are many overlooked challenges to studying insect welfare and applying that knowledge in IAFF industry contexts. Here, we briefly review five of these challenges. We end with practical recommendations for the future study of insect welfare.
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